Word: chip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webb also controls shopping centers in Phoenix and Tucson and owns five hotels, including the blue-chip Sahara in Las Vegas. Last week Webb broke ground for a 200-room oceanside hotel in San Diego; the company is also building office skyscrapers in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. In the first nine months of 1961, Webb Corp. grossed $45 million...
Said a government minister bravely: "The royal government will never agree that its alignment is the price of aid, even less that the kingdom is a poker chip in an international game. The pressure now exercised on the royal government is intolerable...
...Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house has no legal redress when...
...Chip on Shoulder. Soviet and satellite technicians have been replaced by Red Chinese experts since the break with Moscow. The Chinese draw the same low wages as their Albanian counterparts and earnestly spend their free time studying the difficult native language, but most of the xenophobic Albanians regard them as something straight out of a zoo. Chinese films are being shown at the numerous open-air cinemas (one visitor commented that Albania has "drive-in movies for pedestrians"), and in the darkness students frequently boo and whistle at the heavy propaganda...
Albania has repeatedly defied giant neighbors from Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the all-conquering Turks. Even under Communism it seems to have lost none of its old talent for chip-on-the-shoulder recklessness. But whether or not Enver Hoxha will get away with it depends not on him but upon decisions being made in faraway Red China. For what is at issue is not the submission of Albania to Khrushchev but that of Peking. For the time being, Hoxha continued to denounce Khrushchev as a traitor to Marxism, while Red China's Peking Review proclaimed: "Albania...